Announcement Pics :)

A few of our announcement pics :)

It's almost time!

We've moved a lot.  4 times to be exact.  Maybe that isn't a lot to most of you but when you're making pretty big, all out of state moves, it is a big deal.

Our journey so far has been nuts.  We started in Michigan where we were both born and raised.  We headed to California.  Loved it.  We adopted our cat while there.  Kitty has frequent flyer miles.  We moved to Virginia.  Grew to love it.  Somehow we ended up with two dogs while there.  From Virginia we headed to Illinois.  Where we ended up with a baby.  And a fish.

And in one week the packers come to start packing us up!

I am so excited to be living in the same house as Dustin.  I'm excited to not be alone all week and to FINALLY have some help when I don't feel well.

One week.  I can do this.

Annoying things people say to newly pregnant women

I'm no rookie to annoying pregnancy comments.  I've obviously been here and done this before but this time I am still shocked every time someone opens their mouth.  I know I shouldn't be because I've also been on this planet long enough to know that some people just don't think.  Here are some things NOT to say.

1.  Was it planned?
I could MAYBE understand this question if I was some unstable 17 year old but I'm not.  And even if I was, it is still rude (and I doubt a 17 year old would plan a pregnancy).  You know what?  This pregnancy was not 100% planned.  I stopped birth control after becoming depressed and miserable on a new pill.  We knew when we moved we would want baby #2 so decided to not worry about birth control if it happened, it happened.  We still avoided what we thought were "fertile days" (boy were we wrong) and did the pull and pray method which obviously didn't work.  Even if it wasn't planned it was a WONDERFUL surprise.  End of story.  So stop asking.

2.  Are you excited?
Again, maybe if I was in a not so great situation I could see people asking this but I am married, stable, and love babies.  Of course I'm freaking excited!  Next question.

3.  Have you picked a name yet?
I ask this all the time but normally to my friends so I feel that isn't so annoying.  What's funny is when people ask you when you're like 5 minutes pregnant.  For the record this time we DO have names picked but it's taken us since we were pregnant with P to agree on names.


4.  You're not finding out the sex?  That takes the fun out of it!
Dustin decided when I was about 7 months pregnant with P that he didn't want to find out the sex of our next baby.  It took this long for him to convince me.  Honestly, I am excited.  We found out with P and now we are trying a different way of surprise.  People seem so shocked by this and annoyed.  I've gotten so many comments about "well how are we supposed to buy stuff?" and I actually did have someone tell me I was taking the fun out of it.  Well sorry to break the news to you but it's our baby and our choice.

5.  You need to hurry up and have another baby.  You're getting up there in age!
Another 'none of your business' comment people like to say.  Accompanied by how as your age goes up your chances for problems/down syndrome/etc go up!  Good to know so many people are professionals and know the chance of risks for us.  P.S.  I'm only 28 people geez.

6.  I hope it's a boy!
I was guilty of this with P because I always thought I'd have a boy first.  I have been guilty of saying to others but for some reason lately it has drove me freaking bonkers!  I love my daughter.  I would love to have another daughter!  I would love to have a son too.  One sex isn't superior to another.  I would love at least one of each eventually but if not WHO CARES?!  Babies are born exactly how they are supposed to be born.  Period.

7.  Wow they are going to be close in age!  You should have waited!
Again, not your decision.  Believe it or not we don't give two craps what our parents, friends, or strangers have to say about when we decide to have a baby (or have an oopsie).  I don't know if there is a 'perfect' time to leave between babies.  And 27 months is perfect in my opinion.

8.  You should have had them closer together!
Again, can't make anyone happy!  What's better is when the same person says this and #7 at different times.  Make up your mind.  Too far apart and it's an issue, too close and it's an issue.  Good thing it's not your kids eh?

9.  Are you ready to get gigantic again?
Oddly enough I do know what happens when you get pregnant.  I love being pregnant (ok, not right this minute but I love the second and third trimester....ok not the end of the third).  But really...nobody wants to be huge and uncomfortable but I'm willing to do it for this tiny little peanut.

10.  Man, you are hormonal! 
That's probably true but want to know what else is true?  You're an asshole.

I'm sure I could come up with 100 more things that people have said to me that were rude but I'll leave it at this for now and leave you with a bit of advice...

If someone tells you they are pregnant the ONLY acceptable answer there is is....

CONGRATULATIONS!!!  

From two...to four....

Can't believe we are going to be a family of four soon.  I just got back our announcement pics and LOVE them.  I'll post more soon! 

9 weeks (+ a couple days)

This week has been awful (as have the past 4 weeks).  I can't believe how different this pregnancy is.  I thought it'd be easier since my body has already done this before but noooope!  I am SO tired, SO nauseous and I can't seem to get any relief.  Yes, I am whining.

Nothing sounds good to eat.  But if I don't eat I feel worse.  The pains I get when I am hungry are ridiculous.  So I try to gag down whatever I can.  I have a hard time eating anything sweet, which sucks because I have always had a sweet tooth.  I can't even eat sugary cereal without feeling awful.

P has been such a good girl through this all.  I know I am not much fun.  She is so good at entertaining herself and she comes to check on mama and read books and cuddle with me.  We watch Sesame Street every day and eat a snack together.  I can't wait to feel better.  This is exactly what I didn't want to happen when I was pregnant.  I feel like me feeling so awful and not being able to go anywhere is taking away from P.  My poor baby.  Hopefully it'll be better in a few weeks.

I missed taking a 8 week picture since I ended up being farther along than we thought so I just have a 9 week photo which is hilarious because I felt like death and didn't even change my pants to something that sort of matched and I have my sports bra hanging out.  Classy.

P has enjoyed taking weekly belly pics with me.  Every time she runs over and wants in on the fun!

First Ultrasound

I had my first midwife appointment with Isabelle.  Lab work, lots of questions, all the fun stuff.  I was trying to think of a way to say GIVE ME AN ULTRASOUND without being too blunt.  I wanted some piece of mind and I wanted to know there was only one baby in there since I had been feeling so awful.  I mentioned how wacky my cycles had been since I finally got them back and told her I had two in April so what'd she say?  She was going to order a dating ultrasound!  Woo!!  The next day I was going to see my baby.

Poor Dustin was out of town and didn't get to go.  He didn't miss much, the lady that did it was a jerk.  The order had said transvaginal so when she had me lay down with my pants on I was a little confused.  She was running the thing all over my belly and had the screen pointed away from me so I asked if she could see the baby and she said yep.  Oh...ok.  Finally she turned it towards me for about 30 seconds and said "theres the heart beating".  Even with her crappy bedside manor I almost cried, what an amazing sight.  A tiny little peanut with a heart just beating away.  158bpm.  I asked her what the heart rate was and she said.  I asked her if everything looked good and she said "it has a heartbeat thats good your doctor has to review everything"  Wow.  Way to make me feel good right?

So I left, with two pictures of my sweet little peanut.

Hello blob baby.

The next day Isabelle called me to tell me that all my lab work came back great and the ultrasound looked great.  Baby was measuring 8 weeks 3 days instead of 7 weeks 4 days like I thought.  That explains how I ended up pregnant while avoiding fertile days.  Isabelle gave me a due date of January 26, 2013.  Which we all know means February 2013.

I can't believe this is for real.  Baby #2 is on the way.

Continued...

So there it was....two lines.  One word.  It was official.  This eggo...was preggo.

I was excited, I was scared, I was about to laugh and cry at the same time.

I sent the pic of the new test to my friend asking if she saw a line.  This time, she saw it.

See, I'm not crazy!  

So, I am not sick, I am pregnant.  Off we went to see my nephew.  I couldn't keep a secret from Jody.  I told her I had something to tell her, she told me I looked like I was going to cry.  I told her I was about to. ha ha ha.  She asked if I was pregnant and I said yes.  She was so excited.  It felt good to feel the excitement with someone.  Dustin was out of town but heading to visit Baby Nephew too.  P had her "Big Cousin" shirt on we decided to stick a sticker over the cousin that said "sister". 

 Dustin showed up and so did Tyler and Jody and I snuck away to get P ready.  We brought her upstairs and what seemed like an eternity (but was really maybe 1.5 minutes if that) passed and finally Dustin said "what's your shirt say? Big what?  Sister?"  He looked at me and asked if I was pregnant.  Then came over and hugged me!  Tyler was happy too and chimed in with how I was already blown out so this baby should just fall right out.  Thanks for those comforting words.  Boys. 

This pregnancy has been so different from P.  I don't know if I feel worse because I am home all week by myself (Dustin is working his new job out of state) and I am chasing a toddler all day and don't get much down time or what but man.  I feel AWFUL.  I am constantly nauseous...all day.  Every day.  I am exhausted beyond belief.  My house is a wreck, laundry needs to be done, crap is everywhere, dishes are dirty, and I don't even care.  I take naps when P naps.  I try not to vomit.  I try to eat. I try to shower without wanting to puke.  I barely can blow dry my hair.  Makeup...what's that?  It's been not so much fun.  

Baby #2, you are killing me here. 

I've been looking at the calendar several times a day counting the days down until the second trimester. July, you can't come soon enough.  Seriously.  Is it July yet?

I'm not really sure how I am going to make it through this move.  I pray every night for some relief.  

I know everything I am going through is SO worth it but that doesn't make it suck any less.

So I told a few people early on.  I called Poppy and told him.  I know he's good with secrets and of course he has been asking about baby #2 since I had P.  He was ecstatic as I knew he would be.  I felt so happy telling him the news.  I'm so glad he's here to witness this.

After telling Poppy I told my Dad.  We skype a few times a week.  I put P in her Big Sis shirt and got on skype.  I asked if he saw her shirt and he said "Oh yeah how is the new baby?"  He thought I was talking about Jody's new baby!!  I said DAD IT SAYS SISTER NOT COUSIN!!  He finally caught on to it and figured out that I was pregnant.  Men are so slow sometimes.  My stepmom wasn't home at the time so we decided we would tell her next time.  We told her the next day on skype and she, being a woman and all, caught on right away.

My first 'belly' (aka extreme bloat) pictures at 6 & 7 weeks.  Thanks Pinterest for the shirt idea.  

And isn't P the cutest thing in the world showing her belly.

May 23, 2012

May 23, 2012...I was SO excited to get up and go see my new nephew who had FINALLY came home from the hospital the day before.  I was anxious to hold him and cuddle him for the first time.  He had been in the NICU and I wasn't allowed to hold him in there.  Blah!

I woke up feeling gross.  My stomach was all sorts of trouble.  I didn't want to go see him if I was sick. Just my luck.  But then I got to thinking...maybe I'm not sick.  Maybe it's something else.  I pulled out a handy dandy pee stick and off I went.  I thought I saw the faintest line.  I sent a pic of it to my friend asking if I was hallucinating.  She told me that she didn't see anything at all.  Ok...I was psyching myself out.

We want a baby.  But we wanted to wait till we were in our new home and settled.  But then again, we weren't really doing much as far as uh you know...prevention.  We avoided "fertile days" and all that jazz.  We were fine, no baby right?

But something was bugging me, I swore I saw a line.  Only in certain light though.  I walked out of the bathroom and the line was gone.  Jesus...really, I am hallucinating.  I decided screw it.  Grabbed P and ran out of the house.  Off to Walmart we went.  As I was driving there I realized in my crazy daze I didn't brush mine or P's teeth.  Gross.  But hey, it's walmart.  We fit right in.

Grab the tests.  Zoom back home.  Say screw the "first morning urine" recommendation on the box and pee again.

During this time my cousin/friend Jamie announced in my mom group that she was pregnant with baby #2.  Our first babies were due a day apart and another mom friend Carran joked that it was time for me to jump on the baby bandwagon since Jamie was pregnant.

Well....ok Carran, if you insist.

To be continued...

Happy Father's Day

I am a lucky girl to have so many great father's in my life.  From my amazing baby daddy to my own daddy to my ever present Poppy. 

I have been slacking lately but I promise I have some posts planned to be up asap with some exciting news!  We move in less than three weeks and hopefully will be all settled in soon.  I'm so tired of being in limbo!  In the meantime don't forget to enter the Evabelle Baby giveaway here.

Happy Birthday to me...and a vlog.

It's my birthday ya'll!  The big 28!  Woo!

Here is my first VLOG.  I am laughing watching it.  Enjoy.

Evabelle Baby

I ran across Evabelle Baby while obsessing over chevron on Etsy.  

I immediately fell in love with this dress.

I am going to get it for P to wear to her second birthday I think.

and then I loved this one...

I was given the opportunity to review one of the dresses and I am so in love.  The material is thick and high quality.  It washes well and fits great.  The elastic in the neck of this makes it easy to take on and off squirmy babies/toddlers.  

  It was a little chilly the day that P wore her new dress so she wore leggings with it.  Once the child outgrows it as a dress it would be cute to wear like this as a tunic over leggings.  Love.

So Evabelle Baby was nice enough to offer a giveaway for my readers!!  A 34.95 credit to her shop which covers the price of the above dress :)  

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Busy Summer....

I haven't been blogging as often lately because we have been keeping ourselves super busy.  

Trips to visit my nephew, visits to the zoo, a visit to the planetarium, daily trips to the pool, cookouts with the neighbors, sprinkler/water table fun, snuggling in bed with mama and kitty, mama reading the fifty shades trilogy,  all sorts of fun.

Coming up trips to the water park, beach, and who knows what else!

Zonked out.

I'll be back eventually.  I have a great giveaway coming up.

Our house on The Today Show

A week or so ago our relator emailed us and and told us she was contacted by the Today Show to feature our house on the Today Show Segment Best Deals Under $200,000!  We like our house, it's in a nice area.  It is nice inside but I had no idea once we put it on the market we would get 3 offers the first day!  And then to top it off have it on the Today show.  It was on this mornings show but here is the video I stole from their website, it is the first house featured.  The lady didn't enjoy my dark curtains or my dark furniture and honestly I don't either which is why the curtains are staying with this house and the furniture will be in our new home's basement ;)

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